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Rode with Mark this morning, dirt and atomic in the house but we couldn't catch them. Snow is most most excellent though the crowds were heavy for a Friday. They have generally increased the depth and down low the gates are at waist level now. Hopefully they want to match Camleback.

Maybe Saturday, maybe Sunday. Maybe both. My pappy said to always keep 'em guessing.

Perhaps Monday. Heading up to Elk and Montage with the fam for Sat and Sun.

Blue will be the typical Presidents weekend shit show, so thats probably a good move.

Good: The Crew…we had a really solid crew this year and just enough people for the rental car. Gotta thank Jeff for driving us around and when I was laying in bed shitposting online after the first ski day he did three seperate airport pick ups even put gas in the very new Suburban. Things started off mellow but when JFDan and NMSki arrived things amped up a little..got the bat signal that there were snacks and beer in room 106…also a roaring fire..both been to JH several times and not fussy at all.PASRs.. The trip kicked into high gear with the arrivals of Gary and Nazareth Jay…for only skiing several times in the last decade or two, Gary slayed..I took him on one of my easier stashes when the boys hit sportier terrain and he was right behind me most of the time except the cat track cause I have a little skiercross in me and a lot of mass. Nazareth Jay is always happy and was loving the Wyoming whiskey and my dumb humor. The first day at the mangy moose with the whole crew we were the servers most popular table and kept her busy with a lot of food and pitcher after pitcher and nachos and cheeseburgers in paradise. Bad: Asking for a chile glizzy inside the mangy moose and Russian knew it was a Hawt dog Ugly: is less dudes with poneytails in Jackson hole a good thing or a bad thing. Ugly used to be the seeing a hot blonde from a distance and it’s a dude used to happen a lot in JH but I feel like wallets replacing the skids over the last decade or two has led to that more Sheilas for sure in JH so that’s good just ask their age if they have braces.

This thread, after all, is titled "Assspen"... 😁

Ah ok no not the same thing. 😂

Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

Saturday and Sunday. Going to be a heatwave

Woke up in Snowmass to 6” of new snow. Got in line at 8:45 and they started loading 7 min early! Snow was on the wetter side and when I got off the lift my butt was soaking wet. I was not wearing new bibs but some older shell pants. First run from top of VX down to Alpine Springs was deep! I thought no way this only 6”. Upper calf deep. When I got on Alpine Springs I realized both my shell and pants were totally wetted out. I had re water proofed them early season but since they are both about 9years old guess it’s time they retire. I was def uncomfortable being wet, but since it was warmish it was tolerable. Took a few more off Alpine Springs and they were all deep hardly touched. Went up Sheer Bliss as they only run Big Burn on weekends but it all services the same terrain. Tried Powerline Glades and there were still lots of hidden sharks so I skied back onto Sneakys rest of the way down. Sky cleared briefly the my last run down to the base it was like I was skiing thru soup, could barely see. Overall stellar morning. Hoping this is the start of the Pattern change.

Ice patches

You are elusive AF…lessAngryMorehugo

If the dual mountain was 50 more I'd bite. Could prob resell the perks to frontplaters and recoup most of it

Day 42 and all the lifts were working. Amazing. Not as crowded as expected for Presidents' weekend. I guess all the Canadians are celebrating their Family Day by staying out of the US. PXL_20260213_201707484~2.mp4 PXL_20260213_195135594.mp4

The one I like best is from JA Gear in Bozeman. Longer, not as much like a flag in the wind (as the one in the Facebook pic) as it's stiffer and heavy. Very waterproof. I only wear it when I think the lift will be wet, but it's blowing before it lands. If I think all of me could get wet, I put a second pair of ski pants on, Goretex shell pants. Because even though my pants are supposedly waterproof, there's nothing like sitting on a chair full of slush to prove otherwise. These days, once my goggles need constant wiping I head home. It's not usually being wet that's become an issue, it's seeing.

Yeah almost like they planned that ya doofus

Yes

planning on Sunday morning

Decided to hit up Jack Frost for a late morning Friday session. Temperature in the high 20s, bright sun, light wind. Slopes not too crowded in the morning, nice packed powder mostly (except for the bottlenecks across from the bumps which were a little skied off). Still had bumps on the Challenge head walls (with narrow mostly skied off groomer path on trail edge) and skier’s left of Exhibition and Thunderbolt with nice smallish naturally spaced moguls. Part of Challenge and TBolt glades open. Thunderbolt lift was not running. Lodge was crowded for lunch, but not completely packed. Came back from lunch and saw the Thunderbolt lift was running. The Thunderbolt trail (and even Challenge) quickly got pretty crowded pretty quick, and found that it was because they had shut down East Mountain around 1 o’clock. Vail never misses an opportunity to disappoint. Left a little early to give room to the kiddies. But overall a nice session, good time had by all.

Initially I was bummed that the storm turned to ice three weeks ago, but that ice turned out to be pretty great and has kept the snowpack lasting so long

I'm getting the impression we're not talking the same thing... 😀 I'm sure @sibhusky knows. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=547026195817417

C’mon of course they have that. Would never consider one’s without that feature.

go hit your vape

Nice day. First chair and first run on well groomed Lazy. Conditions getting back to Blue normal. Still blowing on NMDW in the morning. Wind blowing up the hill on the quad side. Surprised at how wide Freefall is now on skier’s right. Demos for industry insiders only, as usual. Off until Tuesday.

Under vista chair is another good pow line watch out for the cement footing